Lectures on Cosmic Topological Defects

Tanmay Vachaspati

Lectures on Cosmic Topological Defects

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These lectures review certain topological defects and aspects of their cosmology. Unconventional material includes brief descriptions of electroweak defects, the structure of domain walls in non-Abelian theories, and the spectrum of magnetic monopoles in SU(5) Grand Unified theory.

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